The Stone Angel
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Stone Angel |
| Original title | The Stone Angel |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kari Skogland |
| script | Kari Skogland |
| production |
Elizabeth Jarvis Phyllis Laing Kari Skogland |
| music | John McCarthy |
| camera | Bobby Bukowski |
| cut | Jim Munro |
| occupation | |
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The Stone Angel is a Canadian feature film from 2007. The screenplay for the film is by director Kari Skogland , based on the first novel of the same name from Margaret Laurence's "Manawaka series" published in 1964 .
action
The film shows several decades from the life of the ninety-year-old Hagar Shipley. Her son Marvin and his wife have decided to give Hagar to a nursing home for the elderly, but she refuses and takes the bus to the place where she spent her childhood and adolescence, where she deals with her past.
As a young woman, Hagar decides against her father's will to marry the farmer Bram Shipley, thereby alienating her from her father. Their initially happy marriage is increasingly shaky because Hagar does not subordinate herself to her role as a woman and sees herself on an equal footing with her husband. She treats him callous, they often quarrel, and Brem becomes an alcoholic. Hagar and Brem have two sons, Marvin and John. Hagar decides to leave the house with her younger son John and they both move to another location. Meanwhile, Marvin goes to the army. John later moves back to live with his father, who has since become very ill. John is Hagar's favorite son, but after he gets together with Arlene, he breaks his mother's heart because she disapproves of the relationship because Arlene is the daughter of a once wealthy family who spoke ill of her when Hagar was young. Hagar speaks to John and also to Arlene and tells both that she is against this connection. She mentions to Arlene that she doesn't see any point in her relationship with her son, as he is unable to feed both of them and he drinks too much. Arlene tries to make it clear to Hagar that this is not important to her because she has nothing now. John and Arlene later die after driving a car onto the train tracks for a money bet while a train comes towards them.
In her hiding place, a dilapidated house, Hagar, who has grown old, meets Leo who leads her to grapple with her secret of the role she played in John's death. No longer able to hold back her feelings, she finally realizes that it was her attachment that made her make many wrong decisions and caused misunderstandings. Eventually she is able to close a deal with Marvin.
criticism
"Narrated with a number of leaps in time and played by three different actresses who embody the protagonist in different stages of life, the film still looks like it is all of a piece."
Awards
In 2007 The Stone Angel was nominated for the Tokyo Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival . The Writers Guild of Canada nominated the film in 2008 for their WGC Award . Also in 2008 the film was nominated by the Directors Guild of Canada for Best Director and Best Editing for the DGC Craft Award and all those involved in production were nominated for the DGC Team Award .
At the 2009 Genie Awards , Ellen Burstyn was honored for Best Actress and John McCarthy for Best Score. Bobby Bukowski was nominated for Best Cinematography and Rob Gray for Best Production Design.
Web links
- The Stone Angel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Stone Angel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .